The Future of Financial Planning and Analysis
|In an increasingly competitive landscape, finance executives face many obstacles as they seek to support the business. Many of these hurdles stem from having disparate information systems — leaving finance unable to provide the real-time analysis needed to cope with escalating competitive pressure. These survey findings highlight the importance of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) to the enterprise and demonstrate the role that the FP&A function seeks to play — that of a trusted adviser to the business and an agile steward of information and insight for these uncertain economic times.